Tag: listing band

Listing bands (a.k.a. Möbius strips) are non-orientable surfaces made up of components which repeat in a way that show no beginning or end. The reason this is cool is that it applies a p1 symmetry to a paradromic ring.

But what does listing have to do with anything? Apparently in 1858, Johann Benedict Listing discovered the same properties of a one-sided surface as Möbius did, but didn’t publish his findings. So, 1) to honor his work and 2) to distance my work from what people know about the ever-elusive non-orientable surface, I’m using the term Listing band. (Although now it occurs to me that The Animaniacs were a bit of a Listing band themselves.)